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You're Invited: July 16 Healthcare Town Hall, Leesburg, GA

Do you have questions about how the healthcare plans making the rounds on Capitol Hill will affect you? A little concerned that something so enormous is being rammed through? Starting to wonder about back door deals and a severe lack of actual details or facts in the government healthcare plan? You need to come out Thursday night to the Healthcare Town Hall in Leesburg, GA.

Sponsored by FreedomWorks and Tea Party Patriots, the event is 7-9pm, July 16th, 2009 at Fire Station #1, 342 Leslie Highway, Leesburg, GA 31763.

The panel discussion, moderated by Bill Waller, a FreedomWorks activists, will be packed with experts and good information straight from the source. Here's the background on some panel participants:

Dr. Adams, MD: a practicing OB/GYN physician and the mayor of the largest regional city - Albany

David Catron: the Director of Patient Financial Services, Henry County Medical Center and formerly Sumter Regional Hospital. Catron bring the financial perspecitve of both the patient and hospital to the table.

Greg Donley: an Independent Health Insurance agent, Donley Insurance Agency. Donley speaks from the perspective of a small, local business man, a private health insurance provider, and has seen the changing health insurance landscape and its impace on our local citizens and small businesses from the inside.

ObamaCare was supposed to reduce the cost of insurance, hence the Affordable Care Act. But is this really what it did? States with less regulations before the law was enacted had more affordable health care costs. Take, for example, North Carolina and Nevada. They saw individual premiums for people in their twenties rise over 150 percent after the law was enacted.

A lot of people who received subsidies from ObamaCare in 2014 are finding out that the Affordable Care Act is forcing them to pay that money back to the Internal Revenue Service because the administration did a poor job of spreading important information.

A Georgia lawmaker, state Rep. Alan Powell (R-Hartwell), has filed legislation that would, if passed, make it extraordinarily difficult for Uber, Lyft, and other ridesharing services to operate in the Peach State.

Anyone who tries to tell you that the free market was the reason why nearly 15% of Americans were uninsured in 2008 is misleading you. The notion that a lack of regulations caused this disparity in coverage relies on the assumption that health insurance was a free market industry prior to the passing of the Affordable Care Act, which is simply not true. Here, I will explain just a few of the state-level health care regulations that led to 14.8% of Americans being uninsured just before the Affordable Care Act was passed.

Do you like a true underdog story? Who doesn’t, right? Well, when it comes to being an activist, you will actually understand what Ralph Macchio felt like in the Karate Kid. The odds are stacked against you at every intersection it seems.

Though President Barack Obama and administration officials still insist that ObamaCare is keeping healthcare costs down, the percentage of Americans who have put off seeking medical care for themselves or family due to cost concerns has reached an all-time high, according to a survey released last week by Gallup.

“It’s the law of the land.” This has been the repeated refrain from defenders of ObamaCare against any effort to repeal, replace, or reform the disastrous policy that is causing millions of Americans to lose their existing health insurance and experience drastic, unexpected premium hikes.